MCI Management Backs Mobile Website Building Platform mGenerator and Babycare...
MCI Management has just announced closing Series A round for two startups – mGenerator and Feedo with nearly 1,7 million Euro in funding. The two businesses are very different. mGenerator is a website...
View ArticleStartup Events in CEE 2014
I have compiled a new list of startup events for 2014. May and June seem to be overloaded with startup conferences and awards. I have also included major European conferences such as The Summit, Le...
View ArticleRussian Ecommerce Giant Ozon Receives $150M from AFK Sistema and MTS
Just like Amazon in the US and Europe, Ozon is a leading Russian ecommerce player. Last week it has received $150 million in funding from Russian holding AFK Sistema and MTS, the Russian mobile...
View ArticleRussian Ecwid Raises $5 Million from iTech Capital and Runa Capital
The frequency of my posts has gone down over the past month. I blame my workload and public holidays for that. In May I have to navigate the productive hours between the Labour day and Victory day in...
View ArticleOctober CEE & Russia startup news: Thngs.co, e-commerce in Russia, Fabula,...
October was quite a busy month with a very engaging project, and I hope I’ll share their success story here on GoalEurope soon. That’s why this time it is a montly news roundup from startups from...
View ArticleSuccessful CEE startup founders at E-commerce Berlin Expo
E-commerce Berlin Expo, taking place on April 27th, 2016, will be featuring the presentations of some very successful startuppers from Central and Eastern Europe who got it right and are ready to share...
View ArticleBlinger from Belarus: optimize customer support using messengers
The investment arm of the Russian affiliate advertising company Admitad invested into Blinger, a Belarusian B2B startup. The service enables companies to simplify the communication between their...
View ArticleOctober Startup News: Unicorn in Poland, Futo, Funderbeam, ANSWEAR.com
In this CEE news recap you’ll find out about a new Unicorn that emerged from Poland after $3.5B M&A deal between Naspers and private equity groups. Since Russia had too many things going on in...
View ArticlePolish-founded e-commerce platform Wish (Unicorn!) raised $500M from...
In our latest CEE startup news recap we said that out of the deal between Naspers and a few private equity firms a new Unicorn emerged in Poland. We were wrong! There’s another Unicorn co-founded by a...
View ArticleGreat ambitions of Czech e-commerce analytics startup MonkeyData
E-commerce is a sweet market Ecommerce, and thus the number of online stores, is a rapidly growing market. In 2015, it was estimated that there were 650,000 e-commerce sites producing meaningful...
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